Bonnafon v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Exporters’ statement of the case: ■ The following are the facts as found by the court in Bonna-fon’s Case: I. On the 17th of April, 1876, the claimant, upon findings of fact and conclusions of law set forth in the petition, recovered judgment in the Court of Claims against the United States for the sum of $2,066.10, being the net proceeds in the Treasury of fifteen bales of cotton wrongfully retained by a Treasury purchasing agent in New Orleans, June 27,1865, and sold…
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The Exporters’ statement of the case: ■ The following are the facts as found by the court in Bonna-fon’s Case: I. On the 17th of April, 1876, the claimant, upon findings of fact and conclusions of law set forth in the petition, recovered judgment in the Court of Claims against the United States for the sum of $2,066.10, being the net proceeds in the Treasury of fifteen bales of cotton wrongfully retained by a Treasury purchasing agent in New Orleans, June 27,1865, and sold by him, out of sixty-two bales owned and brought in by the claimant from insurrectionary districts, and received by said…
1Opinion of the CourtUichardsoN, J.
These two cases were heard and submitted together. Each is founded on a previous judgment rendered by this court, which has been paid in part, and the balance of which the Secretary of the Treasury declines to pay for the reasons set forth in the findings, to Avhicli we shall refer hereafter in this opinion. It has been determined by this court and by the Supreme Court that actions on such judgments may be maintained. (Brown's Case, 6 C. Cls. R., 171; O’Grady’s Case, 8 id., 451, affirmed on appeal, 22 Wall., 641, and 10 C. Cls. R., 134.)
The questions of law now raised involve, in the first…
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